Manager

Vahura; Mumbai; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

Vahura is seeking a tax advisory professional in Mumbai to advise clients on Indian direct and indirect tax implications across business operations, cross-border transactions, and restructurings. The role involves analyzing cross-border payment taxability, transfer pricing, and treaty interpretations, with a focus on tax-efficient structures and risk management.

The candidate will prepare opinions, memos, alerts, and client updates on evolving tax law and policy, and participate in due diligence

Qualifications

• Direct tax advisory experience preferred.
• Knowledge of indirect taxes and GST advantageous.
• Experience with cross-border and transfer pricing matters beneficial.

Responsibilities

• Advise clients on Indian direct tax and indirect tax implications arising in business operations, cross-border transactions, restructuring, and day-to-day commercial arrangements.
• Analyse tax ability of cross-border payments, including withholding tax, permanent establishment, place of effective management, transfer pricing, interpretation of tax treaties, etc.
• Assist clients with tax-efficient business models, entry structures, supply chain planning, and operational tax risk management.
• Prepare legal opinions, tax memoranda, technical notes, alerts, and client updates on developments in tax law and policy.
• Support domestic and cross-border M&A, private equity, venture capital, joint venture, internal reorganisation, and business transfer transactions from a tax perspective.
• Undertake vendor and buy side tax due diligence; advise on acquisition structures, divestment, spin-offs, mergers, and capital reduction exercises.
• Review transaction documents from tax perspective; assist in implementation and post-closing integration matters and tax registrations.

Skills

Direct tax advisory

Indirect tax advisory

Cross-border transactions

M&A tax

Transfer pricing

Job description

• Advise clients on Indian direct tax and indirect tax implications arising in the course of business operations, cross-border transactions, restructuring, and day-to-day commercial arrangements.
• Analyse tax ability of cross-border payments, including issues relating to withholding tax, permanent establishment, place of effective management, transfer pricing, interpretation of tax treaties, etc.
• Assist clients with tax-efficient business models, entry structures, supply chain planning, and operational tax risk management.
• Prepare legal opinions, tax memoranda, technical notes, alerts, and client updates on developments in tax law and policy.

Transaction / Deal Support

• Support domestic and cross-border M&A, private equity, venture capital, joint venture, internal reorganisation, and business transfer transactions from a tax perspective.
• Undertake vendor and buy side tax due diligence;
• Advise on acquisition structures, divestment, slump sales, share transfers, asset transfers, mergers, demergers, and capital reduction exercises.
• Review of transaction documents from tax perspective
• Assist in implementation of transaction structures, post-closing integration matters, and tax registrations / transition support where required.